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Southwest Haiku embraces Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas & Utah
2008 SOUTHWEST REGIONAL COORDINATOR
Cliff Roberts - (817) 624-8803
5008 Flagstone Dr., Fort Worth, TX 76114
Vanpire13@aol.com or brephoenix@aol.com
SOUTHWEST REGIONAL HAIKU NEWS
Update on Dr. Marvin Hirsh, FWHS member:
Marvin called this morning and said he is feeling much better. He still has a number of chemo treatments to get through but he hopes to be well enough to return to work in Nov 2008. Marvin's birthday is April 13th! Happy Birthday Marvin, we are so glad you are feeling better! We will send you healing thoughts and energy. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 6, 2008
Advanced Praise for Desert Hours
by Poet Marian Olson
“A first-rate collection.”—Charles Trumbull, editor Modern Haiku
Santa Fe, NM—In her latest poetry collection Desert Hours, award-winning author Marian Olson draws from intimate impressions of New Mexico, including observations honoring the Hispanic and Native American cultures of the Southwest. The book is a “paean to a land that has nourished me in all ways imaginable,” says Olson. “The poetic forms of haiku and senryu are the perfect vehicles to convey it because their very sparseness is like the desert itself.”
“The cumulative effect of these short lines and vivid moments is a beautiful, haunting Vision.”—Michael McClintock, editor The New American Imagist series (Hermitage West)
“Her sense of place is potent.”—Anita Virgil, past president of the Haiku Society of America
Desert Hours by Marian Olson, art work by Karen Fitzsimmons. (Lily Pool Press, 2007. 109 pages, 5 ½ x 8 ½ inches, sewn letterpress edition. ISBN 978-0-934714-35-8.), $22 postpaid from Collected Works Bookstore (www.collectedworksbookstore.com) or directly from Marian Olson, 2400 Botulph Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505-5754.
About the Author
Marian Olson’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies worldwide. She is the author of three poetry books, including Songs of the Chicken Yard, a critically acclaimed book of haiku and senyru. She is an occasional book reviewer for Modern Haiku and Frogpond, the national journal for the Haiku Society of America. 19 Moons is forthcoming from Swamp Press Master Series.
For More Information
E.mail: santafemo@aol.com
SMALL CANYONS 3 (Specialized: regional/haiku and senryu)Southwest Region's Third Anthology
E-mail: japple@dfn.com. Established 2006. Contact: Jim Applegate, editor
601 Fulkerson Drive, Roswell, NM 88203-4127. (505)623-8267.
small canyons is being published by the HSA Southwest Region coordinator and members it is not an official HSA project. small canyons is digest sized, desktop published, saddle stapled, heavy card stock cover with a graphic.
Send one paragraph bio and 10 haiku, senryu, tanka or cinquan to Jim Applegate by email. Send $10.00 to (this pays for 1 copy of the book. If you'd like to order more include the price of the books to:
Jim Applegate 601 Fulkerson Dr.
Roswell, NM 88203
SW Region Haijin SpotlightMeet your Southwest Haijin: Celia Stuart-Powles, Oklahoma
Archive Index
SOUTHWEST REGIONAL HAIKU SOCIETIES
New Haiku Group formed in Dallas that meets the 3rd Saturday of each month from 1 to 4 pm. for more information contact: susan delaney, m.d.
Oklahoma haijin interested in forming a society contactClyde Glandon
(918) 481–5244
office@ccetulsa.org
Spadefoot: The Southern Arizona Haiku Societyhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthernArizonaHaiku/
A Yahoo Group
Fort Worth Haiku Society Photos from April 5 and 6, 2008 at the Japanese Garden's Spring FestivalApril 19th, FWHS will present a haiku reading at the Borders Books and Music on I30 @ Hulen in the Cafe. Come join us in Celebrating National Poetry Month!
The FWHS webiste is being updated. See the latest FWHS news there
Fort Worth Haiku Society
Melanie Alberts of Austin, Texas is looking for people interested in getting an Austin Haiku Club together.Contact me at Vanpire13@aol.com and I will forward her the information.
LINKS
Haiku Society of AmericaSpadefoot: The Southern Arizona Haiku SocietyFort Worth Haiku SocietyRoadrunner Magazine, A Haiku Journal online -- Southwest RegionWisteria: A Journal of Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka Haiku Society of America's Spring Quarterly Meeting 2008Fort Worth Haiku Society hosted Haiku Society of America's Spring Quarterly Meeting March 2008.
Dave Russo's photos from the Spring Quarterly meeting are available here
The Skipping Stones